Mumbai Police Order Probe Into Extortion Allegations Against Sameer Wankhede
The joint commissioner of police (law and order), Vishwas Nangre Patil has ordered the inquiry
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have set up an inquiry team to look into the complaints against Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officers, including zonal director Sameer Wankhede, who are alleged extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case.
A senior official said that the inquiry team set up by the Mumbai Police will be conducting its own inquiry into the four complaints. These complaints were filed by an independent witness in the NCB case, Prabhakar Sail, and lawyers Sudha Dwivedi, Kanishka Jain, and Nitin Deshmukh.
The Mumbai Police has already recorded Sail’s statements on Tuesday and Wednesday, but now all the complaints have been clubbed together.
According to PTI, Assistant commissioner of police Milind Khetle, police inspector Ajay Sawant, assistant PI Shrikant Karkar, and sub-inspector Prakash Gawali will be part of the inquiry team.
The team will receive additional assistance from Dilip Sawant, the additional commissioner of police (South Region) who will supervise the inquiry, as well as from DCP Hemrajsingh Bagul, who will assist Sawant as the supervisory officer.
The joint commissioner of police (law and order), Vishwas Nangre Patil has ordered the inquiry.
An NCB probe team, led by its deputy director-general (Northern Region) Gyaneshwar Singh, has also started investigation just a day after the affidavit and allegations of corruption levelled by Prabhakar Sail.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday the NCB questioned Sameer Wankhede for about four hours and he put forward “many facts before the team”.
The NCB has also retained Sameer Wankhede as the investigating officer in the drugs-on-cruise case until substantial evidence is found against him.
The deputy director-general (Northern Region) Gyaneshwar Singh said, “If necessary, more evidence and documents will be sought from him. He submitted case-related documents that were sought. If needed, he will be questioned further. He will remain the investigating officer in the drugs-on-cruise ship case until substantial information is found against him.”
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